So who are we to believe--Senator Durbin or Donald Trump? Donald Trump is a serial liar. If he was Pinocchio his nose would be slamming into the Andromeda Galaxy. But just because Donald Trump is a serial liar, that doesn't mean we should necessarily automatically believe Senator Durbin.

Before looking at the evidence supporting Durbin's claim we must note that this is just the latest in a long history of racist incidents involving Donald Trump. David Leonhardt enumerated them as follows in his recent New York Times op-ed.

• Trump’s real-estate company was sued twice by the federal government in the 1970s for discouraging the renting of apartments to African-Americans and preferring white tenants, such as “Jews and executives.”• In 1989, Trump took out ads in New York newspapers urging the death penalty for five black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he continued to argue that they were guilty as late as October 2016, more than 10 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.• He spent years claiming that the nation’s first black president was born not in the United States but in Africa, an outright lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.• He began his 2016 presidential campaign by disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”• He has retweeted white nationalists without apology.• He frequently criticizes prominent African-Americans for being unpatriotic, ungrateful and disrespectful.• He called some of those who marched alongside white supremacists in Charlottesville last August “very fine people.”• He is quick to highlight crimes committed by dark-skinned people, sometimes exaggerating or lying about it (such as a claim about growing crime from “radical Islamic terror” in Britain). He is very slow to decry hate crimes committed against dark-skinned people (such as the murder of an Indian man in Kansas last year).

Now, let's look at the evidence for and against the claim that Donald Trump disparaged Haitians and called countries in Africa "shit hole countries".

Senators Cotton and Purdue should inform the medical world of their secret for overcoming amnesia. It is remarkable how they both overcame their amnesia and were able to clarify their memories of the meeting on the same day.

I will post some evidence that strongly suggests Trump made his "shit hole countries" remark. But first, it is important to understand the timing behind the story and some key events.

4. At 5:08 pm on 1/11/18 Dawsey tweets out that he went over every part of the story with the White House. He tweeted out the initial White House response to the story and they did not deny that Trump's "shithole countries" remark.

Trump sort of denied that he used the words "shit hole" in a 7:28 am tweet on 1/12/ --nearly 15 hours after the story broke Actually, this tweet did not explicitly state that he denies using those words, but we can infer that's what he meant.

The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!